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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would certainly love to see gun control measures passed but I worry the most about traffic safety. We are a car-obsessed country.  [/quote]

+1. My husband was hit while walking to the subway last week by an SUV likely going around 20 MPH. The culprit was a crazy mom bringing her son to middle school. She had total visibility, but I assume was busy doing something else. My husband is 6'1 and 185 and he broke bones in his back and needed staples in his head. I keep thinking what if he was a kid or what if he was a smaller adult. Our cities are really built for driving in a way that many other cities are not. I also feel law our traffic laws favor cars over pedestrians and bikers to a large extent. You can basically kill someone and as long as you don't flee the scene you're fine.[/quote]

Out of curiosity—was the driver turning left?  I have almost been hit about 4 times by a driver turning left and cutting through the crosswalk where o had the light without looking for crossing pedestrians.  Two of the times the driver had swerved around a different driver who had stopped to yield to me.  One of the times the driver actually hit my wide leg pant leg with their bumper, so was within a half inch of my leg.   Often the drivers are accelerating into the turn so that they don’t miss the green or orange so definitely aren’t expecting to yield to pedestrians.  I don’t know how to teach drivers that this is really important to yield.  Someone was killed outside my office the same way—driver turning left just mowed her over in the crosswalk.[/quote]

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